Unit 2 · Chapter 11 · 8 min
Taste: why some true things die on stage
Truth isn't enough. The room has to be able to receive it from you, in that order, at that moment.
New comics find something true, say it, and get silence. Then they blame the crowd. But taste isn't censorship — it's the engineering question of whether this audience can hold this idea from this person right now.
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